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Michael Morgan

b. 1948 Person Name: Michael Morgan, 1948- Author of "Incline Your Ear, O Lord, to me (Psalm 86)" in Hymns of Promise Michael Morgan (b. 1948) is a church musician, Psalm scholar, and collector of English Bibles and Psalters from Atlanta, Georgia. After almost 40 years, he now serves as Organist Emeritus for Atlanta’s historic Central Presbyterian Church, and as Seminary Musician at Columbia Theological Seminary. He holds degrees from Florida State University and Atlanta University, and did post-graduate study with composer Richard Purvis in San Francisco. He has played recitals, worship services, and master classes across the U. S., and in England, France, Spain, Switzerland, and Germany. He is author of the Psalter for Christian Worship (1999; rev. 2010), and a regular contributor in the field of psalmody (most recently to the Reformed collections Psalms for All Seasons and Lift Up Your Hearts, and the new Presbyterian hymnal, Glory to God). Michael Morgan

Martin E. Leckebusch

b. 1962 Author of "Our Hope, Our Life (Psalm 49)" in Glory to God

Susan Palo Cherwien

1953 - 2021 Person Name: Susan Palo Cherwien, b. 1953 Author of "O Blessed Spring" in Lutheran Service Book

John Wilson

1905 - 1992 Person Name: John Wilson, 1905-1992 Arranger of "O WALY WALY" in Common Praise Born January 21, 1905, in Bournville, Birmingham, England; died July 16, 1992, in Guildford, Surrey, England. He served as Vice President of the Hymn Society of Great Britain and Ireland, and was a Fellow of the Hymn Society in the United States and Canada. Leland Bryant Ross from a biographical article in the journal of the Hymn Society of Great Britain and Ireland: https://hymnsocietygbi.org.uk/1992/10/treasure-no-58-john-wilson-1905-92

Olive W. Spannaus

1916 - 2018 Person Name: Olive Wise Spannaus, 1916-2018 Author of "Lord of All Nations, Grant Me Grace" in Christian Worship Olive Wise Spannaus died May 10, 2018 in Seattle.

Martin West

b. 1929 Person Name: Martin West, b. 1929 Harmonizer of "O WALY WALY" in Gather Comprehensive

Elfred Bloedel

1924 - 2020 Person Name: E. Bloedel Arranger of "O WALY WALY" in Evangelical Lutheran Hymnary

Marie J. Post

1919 - 1990 Versifier of "As Moses Raised the Serpent Up" in Lift Up Your Hearts Marie (Tuinstra) Post (b. Jenison, MI, 1919; d. Grand Rapids, MI, 1990) While attending Dutch church services as a child, Post was first introduced to the Genevan psalms, which influenced her later writings. She attended Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Michigan, where she studied with Henry Zylstra. From 1940 to 1942 she taught at the Muskegon Christian Junior High School. For over thirty years Post wrote poetry for the Grand Rapids Press and various church periodicals. She gave many readings of her poetry in churches and schools and has been published in a number of journals and poetry anthologies. Two important collections of her poems are I Never Visited an Artist Before (1977) and the posthumous Sandals, Sails, and Saints (1993). A member of the 1987 Psalter Hymnal Revision Committee, Post was a significant contributor to its array of original texts and paraphrases. Bert Polman

Robert J. Batastini

b. 1942 Person Name: Robert J. Batastini, b. 1942 Arranger of "O WALY WALY" in Singing Our Faith Robert J. Batastini is the retired vice president and senior editor of GIA Publications, Inc., Chicago. Bob has over fifty-five years of service in pastoral music ministry, having served several parishes in the Archdiocese of Chicago and one in the Diocese of Joliet. He served as executive editor and project director for the Worship hymnals (three editions), Gather hymnals (three editions), Catholic Community Hymnal, and as executive editor of RitualSong. In 1993 he became the first recipient of the Father Lawrence Heimann Citation for lifetime contribution to church music and liturgy in the U.S., awarded by St. Joseph's College, Rensselaer, Indiana, and was named "Pastoral Musician of the Year-2000" by the National Association of Pastoral Musicians (NPM). At its 2006 conference, he was named a Fellow of the Hymn society in the United States and Canada. In his retirement he is active in the music ministry of St. Francis de Sales Parish, Holland, MI. Nancy Naber, from www.giamusic.com/bios/